39 Steps is now a traveling Broadway show, a spoof on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 original movie. I saw the matinee today at The Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale. It seemed to have been sold out.

Starring Claire Brownell, Ted Deasy, Eric Hissom, Scott Parkinson

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The play has only 4 actors – three men and one woman. Two of the men play many different characters and are quite funny. The essence of the story is that a man is falsely accused of murder and is on the run. It is all very spoofy and somewhat silly (said to be like Monty Python humor but I did not think so), yet there are many good laughs and chuckles throughout the story. The actors move around a lot on stage and the acting is over dramatic (which it is supposed to be.) Props are pushed around often as well and are reused in many different ways, which is also entertaining.

At times I thought the story dragged (especially the last 45 minutes) and since it is all so silly, I got a but tired of it after a while. I still think it was amusing and the actors were great. There is nothing they could have done any better – it’s just that the script is a bit loopy.

So if you want some relaxing entertainment and want to laugh without being offended, it is certainly worth going. It won 2 Tony Awards, so many people must have enjoyed it.

I’d give 3.5 stars out of 5.

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